March 26, 2010

The FDA has released the summary for 2009 of transfused-related fatalities. Of 74 transfusion-recipient fatality reports, they determined that 44 of the fatalities were transfusion-related, 22 of the fatalities were cases in which transfusion could not be ruled
out as the cause of the fatality, and 8 of the fatalities were unrelated to the transfusion.